Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-05-21
NO. 8.
Pointed PinIets.

There's many minister slghs when
he hears
How Fortune the baseball player
follers.
The Preacher in debt iinds acup full of
tears,
The Pitcher returns fun Of dollars.
| The alumni of the University of
Paris numbered nearly 1900 last
year. OF these 37S6 were studying
law and 1906 were studying medi
cine, while only 35 were studying
theology. The female students num-
bered 167,
An old man has just died in Der
lin who has occupied the position of
landlord to large number of tenants
for fifty-seven years, and during all
that time he never warned out or
raised the rent on a tenant. Nor
had he ever given a written lease to
any of his tenants
"Man's queer inhumauity to man
makes countless thousands mourn;
my end is for peace This poetic
paraphrase John Marks Poole, Lon
don printer, wrote on slip of paper
as his reason for committing suicide.
He cut the blood vessels in his arm
with q pair Of scissors and bled slow
ly to death.
One night mamma said as she tucked in bed
Her sweet little tive-year old
'The Winter drear has gone, my dear,
Spring comes with its heart of gold.'
And when, the next day, he ran in from
play
A dafodil bright TO bring
s'see mamma" he cried, in his childish
pride,
'.I's found he heart of Spring.
DIR. Edward Knox, of Green Mary,
Tenn, angry ut his IA year-old son
who had disobeyed him, stripped
him, tied him up and whipped him
with blacksnake whip until he be-
came unconscious, and at the plead
ing of his mother was taken down.
The lad died the next morning, and
the father has fled. The mother is
| almost crazed.
The growth of newspapers in some
Of the Western States would be o
matter Of wonder, il it were not that
this year is no exception to the
rule. In Kansas the increase is 80,
and in Nebraska, Ga, while the Key
stone State shows a smaller advance
Of 35, and the Buckeye State Of 80.
Pennsylvania exhibits the largest
| increase in dailies, II; Kansas in
weeklies, 81, and New York in mon
thlies, AZ. Seven states show de-
crease, the most prominent instan-
ces being New Hampshire and Vir-
ginia, each.
A clergyman Of Auburn, Me-, after
eating luncheon in railroad eating
house, picked up what he thought
was his bag and went on his journey
When he got home the bag was
opened in the presence of his wife,
who was grieved to see lying side by
side several bottles which, according
to their labels, contained fire-water
of the strongest kind. The bag be-
longed to drummer for liquor
house, and the drummer was also
probably surprise when he found
that in the bag that he had were
three solid, orthodox sermons.
The Chinese version Of Solomon's
Judgment is that when the case Of
two mothers and one child came be
fore wise mandarin he handed the
matter over to his wife for decision.
She ordered that the child's
clothes should secretly be put on
fish, which, thus disguised, should
be thrown into the river. This was
done, and the woman who ran
shrieking into the water to save the
child was declared to be the mother.
The mandarin chuckeled at his wifes
bright idea.
All Natures a-smile in wreath OF
roses,
Roses all yellow, and red and white;
When the store upon Saturday early
closes,
The heart Of the clerk will be blithe and
light
Serene Is the Nighttime, as well as the day
time,
For this is the delicate, roseate May
time,
And who now the Summers at hand sup
poses,
In that supposition is just dead right.
Danbury, Conn, has 8 pair Of
twins that not only look and speak
almost exactly alike, but are pecul-
iarly attached to one another.
They cannot be separated a single
day without longing for each other
society and yet they are both mar
ricd now. If one is upon one street
and the other upon different one
they can tell by some electrical